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WebXPRT 3 is here!

Justin Greene
By Justin Greene
on February 27, 2018

We’re excited to announce that WebXPRT 3 is now available to the public. BenchmarkXPRT Development Community members have been using a community preview for several weeks, but now anyone can run WebXPRT 3 and publish their results.

As we mentioned on the blog, WebXPRT 3 has a completely new UI, updated workloads, and new test content. We carried over several features from WebXPRT 2015 including automation, the option to run individual workloads, and language options for English, German, and Simplified Chinese.

We believe WebXPRT 3 will be as relevant and reliable as WebXPRT 2013 and 2015. After trying it out, please submit your scores and feel free to let us know what you think. We look forward to seeing new results submissions!

Posted in BenchmarkXPRT development community, Browser-based benchmarks, Community Preview, Cross-platform benchmarks, German, Performance benchmarking, Simplified Chinese, Web-based testing, WebXPRT, WebXPRT 3 |

A smooth transition

Justin Greene
By Justin Greene
on February 15, 2018

We want to thank Andrei Frumusanu of AnandTech for mentioning WebXPRT 3 in the System Performance section of their Snapdragon 845 review. For testing labs and tech media, incorporating a new benchmark into a test suite can be daunting, and they don’t make the decision to do so lightly. Once a new benchmark is in play, the score database used for comparisons is suddenly empty, and a lot of testing needs to happen before anyone can compare devices on a large scale.

In the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community, we’ve designed our development and release system to minimize the stress involved in adopting new benchmark tools. A key part of that strategy is releasing community previews to members several weeks before the general release. When we release a community preview, we include no publication restrictions and we work to make sure that preview results will be comparable to results from the general release. Between a community preview and a general release, we may still tweak the UI or fix issues with non-workload-related features, but you can be sure that the results will still be good after the general release.

The community preview system allows us to solicit feedback from an expanded base of pre-release testers, but it also allows labs to backfill results for legacy devices and get a head start on incorporating the new benchmark into their testing suites.

Speaking of previews, WebXPRT 3 community preview testing is going well and we’re excited about the upcoming release. If you’d like to learn more about our development community and how you can join, send us your questions and we’ll be happy to help.

Justin

Posted in Benchmarking, BenchmarkXPRT development community, Browser-based benchmarks, Collaborative benchmark development, Community Preview, WebXPRT, WebXPRT 3 |

WebXPRT 3, Mobile World Congress, and the next HDXPRT

Justin Greene
By Justin Greene
on February 8, 2018

We’re excited about everything that’s in store for the XPRTs, and we want to update community members on what to expect in the next few months.

The next major development is likely to be the WebXPRT 3 general release. We’re currently refining the UI and conducting extensive testing with the community preview build. We’re not ready to announce a firm release date, but hope to do so over the next few weeks. Please try the community preview and give us your feedback, if you haven’t already.

During the last week of February, Mark will be at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. Each year, MWC offers a great opportunity to examine the new trends and technologies that will shape mobile technology in the years to come. We look forward to sharing Mark’s thoughts on this year’s hot topics. Will you be attending MWC this year? If so, let us know!

In addition, we’re hoping to have a community preview of the next HDXPRT ready in the spring. As we mentioned a few months ago, we’re updating the workloads, applications, and UI. For the converting photos scenario, we’re considering incorporating new Adobe Photoshop tools such as the “Open Closed Eyes” feature and an automatic fix for pictures that are out of focus due to handheld camera shake. For the converting videos scenario, we’re including 4K GoPro footage that represents the quality of video captured by today’s “prosumer” demographic.

What features would you like to see in the next HDXPRT? Let us know!

Justin

Posted in BenchmarkXPRT, BenchmarkXPRT development community, Browser-based benchmarks, Collaborative benchmark development, Community Preview, Future of performance evaluation, HDXPRT, HDXPRT release cycle, Mobile devices, Mobile World Congress, Mobile World Congress, Performance benchmarking, Trade Shows, WebXPRT, WebXPRT 3 | Tagged , , , |

The WebXPRT 3 Community Preview is here!

Justin Greene
By Justin Greene
on December 14, 2017

Today we’re releasing the WebXPRT 3 Community Preview (CP). As we discussed in the blog last month, in the new version of WebXPRT, we updated the photo-related workloads with new images and a new deep learning task for the Organize Album workload. We also added an optical character recognition task to the Local Notes workload and combined a portion of the DNA Sequence Analysis scenario with a writing sample/spell check scenario to simulate an online homework hub in the new “Online Homework” workload.

Also, longtime WebXPRT users will immediately notice a completely new, but clean and straightforward, UI. We’re still tweaking aspects of the UI and implementing full functionality for certain features such as social media sharing and German language translation, but we don’t anticipate making any significant changes to the overall test or individual workloads before the general release.

As with all community previews, the WebXPRT 3 CP is available only to BenchmarkXPRT Development Community members, who can access the link from the WebXPRT tab in the Members’ Area.

After you try the WebXPRT 3 CP, please send us your comments. Thanks and happy testing!

Justin

Posted in BenchmarkXPRT development community, Browser-based benchmarks, Collaborative benchmark development, Community Preview, Cross-platform benchmarks, Future of performance evaluation, German, Performance benchmarking, WebXPRT, WebXPRT 3 |

News about WebXPRT and BatteryXPRT

Justin Greene
By Justin Greene
on December 7, 2017

Last month, we gave readers a glimpse of the updates in store for the next WebXPRT, and now we have more news to report on that front.

The new version of WebXPRT will be called WebXPRT 3. WebXPRT 3 will retain the convenient features that made WebXPRT 2013 and WebXPRT 2015 our most popular tools, with more than 200,000 combined runs to date. We’ve added new elements, including AI, to a few of the workloads, but the test will still run in 15 minutes or less in most browsers and produce the same easy-to-understand results that help compare browsing performance across a wide variety of devices.

We’re also very close to publishing the WebXPRT 3 Community Preview. For those unfamiliar with our open development community model, BenchmarkXPRT Development Community members have the ability to preview and test new benchmark tools before we release them to the general public. Community previews are a great way for members to evaluate new XPRTs and send us feedback. If you’re interested in joining, you can register here.

In BatteryXPRT news, we recently started to see unusual battery life estimates and high variance when running battery life tests at the default length of 5.25 hours. We think this may be due to changes in how new OS versions are reporting battery life on certain devices, but we’re in the process of extensive testing to learn more. In the meantime, we recommend that BatteryXPRT users adjust the test run time to allow for a full rundown.

Do you have questions or comments about WebXPRT or BatteryXPRT? Let us know!

Justin

Posted in AI, Battery life, BatteryXPRT 2014 for Android, BenchmarkXPRT, BenchmarkXPRT development community, Browser-based benchmarks, Community Preview, Cross-platform benchmarks, Future of performance evaluation, Performance benchmarking, WebXPRT, WebXPRT 3 |

Quarterly review

Eric Hale
By Eric Hale
on March 31, 2016

It’s been one of our busiest quarters ever! Here’s a quick review of what’s been happening:

The XPRTs were on the road a lot!

 
While I was at CES, I was lucky enough to be able to sit down and talk on-the-record with a couple of community members:

 
Many thanks to them for being so generous with their time and their insights.

We also gave folks a lot to look at:

 
That is a great start to the year, but we’re going to top it – Next week, we’ll kick off Q2 with one of our biggest announcements ever!

Eric

Posted in AnandTech, BenchmarkXPRT, Brett Howse, CES, Collaborative benchmark development, Community Preview, Dell, Mobile World Congress, Mobile World Congress, Nebula Wolf, North Carolina State University, Patrick Chang, TouchXPRT, TouchXPRT 2016, XPRT Women Code-a-Thon |

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